Re: DBI 1.611 + DBD::mysql 4.016 = segfaults on Ubuntu 10.10 amd64 ?

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 02:54:30PM +0000, Tony Esposito wrote:
>    Hello Tim,
>      Just curious, Tim, when is DBI 2.0 to be released?

[Fx: Tim stares off into the middle-distance whistling quietly to himself]

For Perl 5, possibly never.
For Perl 6, sooner than that - but don't hold your breath.

>    Thanks for all your hard work, by the way.
>    DBI->great_stuff()!

Thanks!

Tim.

p.s. You can see from the Changes file that there's now a team of contributors:
http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI/Changes#Changes_in_DBI_1.616_(svn_r14616)_30th_December_2010
They've been a huge help in keeping the DBI moving forwards. Thanks guys!

>    Tony
>    Cheers!
> 
>    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>    From: Tim Bunce <[email protected]>
>    To: Cosimo Streppone <[email protected]>
>    Cc: [email protected]
>    Sent: Mon, 24 January, 2011 5:31:31
>    Subject: Re: DBI 1.611 + DBD::mysql 4.016 = segfaults on Ubuntu 10.10 amd64 ?
>    On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 03:23:18PM +1100, Cosimo Streppone wrote:
>    > stat("/usr/lib/perl5/auto/DBI/DESTROY.al", 0x7f341e8459b0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> 
>    It took me a while to track down where that object was coming from.
>    It's from a tie I added many years ago to help catch people doing DBI->{Attrib}.
>    (I don't think it's relevant to your issue but I was curious.)
>    I'll remove it for the next release as it was never very useful
>    and that'll save the search for a DESTROY method.
> 
>    > --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
>    >
>    > I've checked changelogs for more recent versions of dbd::mysql (I have
>    > 4.016) and dbi (1.611), but nothing seems to mention any segfault fixes.
>    >
>    > I'll try installing the most recent versions from CPAN for now.  Any
>    > other idea?
> 
>    A stack trace from a core file is always a good place to start.
> 
>    Tim.